Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-10

earth have already got their palaces, and
they are pointed out to those newly
arrived. Soon after our getting there we
will ask to be shown the Apostolic resi-
dences, and ask where Goes Paul live,
and John, aud shown the patri-
archal residences, and shall say:
"Wnere does Abraham live,
or jacob" and shown the martyr resi-
dences and say: "Where does John Huss
live, and Ridley?" We will want 10 see
the boulevards where the chart is of con-
querers roll. l will want to see the gar
dens where princes walk We will want
to see Music Row, where Handel and
Haydn and Mozart and Charles Wesley
and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury have
their homes, out of their windows ever
and anon rolling some snatch OF an
earthly oratorio or hymn transported
with the composer. We will want to see
Revival Terrace, where Whitefeld and
NettletOn AMI Payson and Rowland Hill
and Charles Fiuney and other giants of
soul-reaping are resting from their al
most supernatural labors, their doors
thronged with converts just arrived.
COMING TO REPORT THEMSELVES.
But brilliant as the sunset, aud like the
leaves for number, are the celestial
homes yet 10 be awarded, when Christ to
you, and millions of others, shall divide
the spoil. What do You want there? You
shall have it. An orchard? There it is;
twelve manner OF fruit, and fruiG every
month. Do you want river scenery,
Take your choice on the banks of the
river, in longer, wider, deeper
roll than Danube, or Amazon, or
Mississippi il mingling with one. and
emptEing into the city of glass mingled
with fire. Do you want your kindred
back again: Go out and meet your
father and mother without the staff or
the stoop, and your children in q dance
of immortal glee. Do you want throne:
Select it from the million FURNISHED ele-
vatiOns. Do you want q crown? Pick it
out OF that mountain Of diamOnded COro-
nets. Do yen want your old church
friends of earth around you? Begin to
hum an old revival tune and they viii
flock from all quarters 20 revei with you
N sacred Renaissance. All the earth Tor
those who are here on earth at the time
of continental ana planetary distribution,
and all the heavens for those who are
| there.
I That heavenly distribution OF spells
will be surprise to many. Here enters
! heaven the soul OF q man who took up g
greaSdesl OF room in the church Ga earth
| bat sacrificed little. and among his good
works seltiShGesS was evident. He Just
crowds through the shining cate. but it is
very tight squeeze SO that the door
keeper has to pull! hard to get him in.
| ana this man expects half of bcaven for
his share Of trophies, and he would like q
| monopoly OF all its splendor, and 10 pur
chase 10 in the suburbs so that ne could
get advantage from the growth of the
city. Well, he mad Il little grace Of heart,
! Just enough to get him through, and to
! him is given
| SECONDHAND CROWN
which one of the saints wore at the start,
but exchanged for q brighter one az he
went ON from glory to glory. And he is
put IN an old house once occupied by an
angel who was hurled out OF heaven at
the time of satan's rebellion.
| Rl-hv after Him c mes 8 soul that
makes q great SUR among the celeStials,
snd the angels rush to the scene, each
br nglng to her j dazzling corOnet. VINO
! is she, Over what realm OIL earth was
she queen? In what great Dusseldorf
festival Yves she the cantatrice? Neither.
She vas IN Invalid who never left her
room for twenty years; but she was
strong in prayer, and see prayed down
revival after revival, and penteCost after
| pentcCOst, upon the churches, and with
her pale hands she knit mauy mitten or
tippet for the poor, and with her con-
trivances she added Joy to many a holiday
festival, and now, With those thin hands
| so strong for Kindness, and with those
white lips SO strong for supplication, she.
has won coronation, and enthronement,
| and jubilee. And Christ says 10 the
angels vino have brought each crown
| for the glOrifed Invalid: ''NO, not these;
| they are not good enough Bat in the
| jeweled vase at the right hand side of my
th:or e there is one that / have been pre-
| pairing for her May Il year, and for heT
every pln9 l have set en- amethyst, GGd
for ner every good deed ! have set j
| pearl. Fetch it now and fulfill the prom
ise | gave her long go in the sick room:
BE thou faithful unto death, and l will
give thee CROWN"
| But notice that there is only one being
in me universe who can and will diStri-
| butt the trophies OF earth and heaven. Il
| is the divine warrior, the cOmmanderiu-
chief of the centuries, the champion of
| the ages, the universal cOnqueror, the Son
of God, Jesus. You will take the spuils
from His hand, or never take them st all.
Have II s friendship and you may defy all
time ana all eternity, but without it
YoU WE'RE A PAUPER,
though you had q universe at yoUr com
mand. We are told in Revocation that
Jacobs twelve sons were so honored as
t. have the twelve gates of heaven named
after them-Over one gate CT heaven
Nephtali, over another gate of heaven
ISsachur, over another Dan, over another
Cad, over another L -bulon, over another
judah, and so on. But Christ's name is
written over all the gates, and on every
panel of the gates, and have His help,
His pardon, His intercession, His atone
ment, must, or be forlorn wretch for
ever. My Lord and my God. Make me
snd all who hear me this day, and all to
whom these words shall come, Thy re-
pentsnt, believing, sworn, consecrated
and ransomed followers for ever.
What day it will be. This entire as
semblage would rise to your feet if you
could realize it, the day in which Christ
shall in fultllment of my text divide the
spoil. 1t was a great day when Queen
Victoria, in the midst of the Crimesn war,
distributed medals to the soldiers who
hat come home sick and wounded. At
the Horse Guards, presence of the
royal family, the il Iured men were car